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Star explodes halfway across universe (NASA's Swift detects star's GRB; reached Earth early Wed.)
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| 3/21/08
| Seth Borenstein - ap
Posted on 03/21/2008 4:07:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:07:56 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
Click the image for a larger pic..
The extremely luminous afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by
Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right).
This was by far the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen.
Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:10:28 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:12:19 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like 3rd or 4th magnitude, which would have been washed out by city lights here.
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posted on
03/21/2008 4:12:24 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: NormsRevenge
I had to look it up.
A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles
Times 7,500,000,000 = Miles to event.
My calculator just died.
To: RightWhale
Imagine all he civilizations that have come and gone over the 15 billion year history of the universe.
Earth is 5 billion years old. Just imagine what all has happened during those 10 billions years that came before us.
John
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posted on
03/21/2008 5:20:24 PM PDT
by
Diggity
To: TexasCajun
Kinda humbles ya a little bit don’t it??
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posted on
03/21/2008 5:23:46 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: NormsRevenge
**The explosion vaporized any planet nearby, Gehrels said.**
Whoa!!
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posted on
03/21/2008 7:12:47 PM PDT
by
rahbert
To: NormsRevenge
Damn, I wait 7.5 billion years for this, and I’m in the can when it happens.
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posted on
03/21/2008 7:18:34 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Still looking for UART at FX1050)
To: NormsRevenge
So that’s what I felt. :)
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posted on
03/21/2008 7:51:26 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
03/21/2008 9:27:57 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"—Ronald Reagan)
To: NormsRevenge
Are these the same Gamma Rays that turned Bruce Banner Into The Hulk?
That would explain my Road Rage incident Thurssday.
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posted on
03/22/2008 5:52:34 AM PDT
by
Brainhose
(What's It Going To Do.... Nibble Your Bum!?)
To: NormsRevenge
Not to sound like a ditz, but does this mean that this happened 7.5 billion years ago and we are just able to see it now?
To: NormsRevenge
No wonder it’s taking Voyager so long to get home.
To: NormsRevenge
With the current lack of sunspots, we could use all the GRB we can get.
It was warm Wednesday. Here, anyway.
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posted on
03/22/2008 12:11:17 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:03:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
One of those rarities, a triple list ping.
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:05:32 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:06:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like a real monster. It probably destroyed whatever life was present in that galaxy, at least the ones in its “aim”.
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:11:16 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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